Just two months later they became concerned about her behaviour after the head teacher asked to speak to them about her ailing grades and sleeping in lessons.

The game offers a player versus environment mode called "Save the World" and Battle Royale, which features a player versus player game.

Schools are writing to parents telling them the hugely popular game is having a disastrous affect on youngsters' concentration levels in the classroom.

"My husband saw her light on in the night and found her sitting on a urine-soaked cushion playing the game".

Carol said her "backside was red-raw, she was so hooked to the game she wouldn't even go to the toilet".

Since the incident, the pair have sent their daughter to a rehabilitation clinic for "gaming addiction", an illness that was only classified this year as a condition by the World Health Organization (WHO).

Once a keen sportswoman, the youngster starting saying she was too exhausted to do gym or ballet classes and avoided going to church on Sunday with her family.

Steve Pope, the addictions counselor who has been treating Carol and Richard's daughter, said that parents have been reaching out to him about their children, who are as young as 8, and their Fortnite addictions.

Culture Secretary Matt Hancock has warned that addictive online shooter games can have a damaging impact on children.

Since the game was launched in July a year ago more than 40 million people have downloaded it. As of Tuesday, the game is now on every home console, on iOS and Android, and on PC and Mac - a rare occurrence, especially for competitive online games. Over the years, we've heard multiple stories of people who have literally played video games until they died, and others who let their lives crumble around them because they're unable to pull away from the screen.

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Juncker has also offered to visit Washington for a common assessment of EU-US trade to help resolve the dispute, an official said. The calamitous summit ended in disarray after Trump broadsided his allies by disavowing a joint statement the U.S. had agreed to.

Users accused him of ignorance and insensitivity, considering he has no idea what Anthony was even going through. And it was, in fact, his love of dysfunction, of life's messy possibilities, that made his stardom so enduring.

The fight also seriously raises the likelihood that the current round of tariffs could escalate into a full-blown trade war . Also on Monday, former Trump aide and a former Breitbart editor Sebastian Gorka criticized Trudeau, calling him "childish".

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